History
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Art
Arts and Culture in the Ancient World
$10.95 Add to cartThis amazing book provides a snapshot of the arts and cultures across various ancient civilizations. Read about • Egypt’s pyramids, temples, royal tombs, and palaces; • Chinese games and pastimes; • Rome’s sports arenas — the Colosseum and Circus Maximus.
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Historic Colonial Crafts
$10.95 Add to cartColonial Crafts introduces young readers to the craftspeople who created useful works of art by hand. Children will find out how the artisans learned their trades through many years of apprenticeship, as their masters did before them, and gain an appreciation of the beautiful handmade objects that have lasted more than two hundred years. Visit the workshops of:
• the wheelwright
• the cooper
• the founder
• the shoemaker
• the milliner
• the gunsmithReading Level: Gr. 3
Interest Level: Gr. 3-6 -
Canadian Social Studies
I Am Canada: Graves of Ice
$14.95 Add to cartA dramatic Arctic adventure set during Sir John Franklin’s doomed search for the Northwest Passage
George Chambers is a fourteen-year-old aboard HMS Erebus, one of two ships under the command of Sir John Franklin on his quest to discover the Northwest Passage. But when the Erebus and Terror are trapped in crushing ice, 129 men of the crew die from cold, scurvy, and starvation.
Only two remain alive when George begins to recount his story: himself and Commander James Fitzjames. As his strength dwindles and starvation weakens him, George recalls the events that led him to Canada’s desolate North, and the expedition’s failure — including gravediggers, a close call with a polar bear, standing up against sailors threatening mutiny, and his own impending death.
George does not know whether the story he tells will be all that survives of Franklin’s doomed Arctic expedition.
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Canadian Social Studies
Emily Carr At the Edge of the World
$25.95 Add to cartThe brilliant artist Emily Carr lived at the edge. When she was born, in 1871, Victoria, British Columbia was a small, insular place. She was at the edge of a society that expected well-bred young ladies to marry. For years, she was at the edge of the world of artists she longed to join.
Emily Carr’s life was not an easy one. She struggled against a family that did not approve of her art and against poor health. She found her pleasures in her many pets – a Javanese monkey named Woo, parrots, and many beloved dogs. Later, she would meet the artists of the Group of Seven and among them find her soul mates.
When illness put a stop to her painting, she found expression and comfort in her writing. Her book Klee Wyck received Canada’s highest literary honor – the Governor General’s Award.
Emily Carr: At the Edge of the World is an introduction to this remarkable artist and her paintings.
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History
Boys Without Names
$10.95 Add to cartFor eleven-year-old Gopal and his family, life in their rural Indian village is over: We stay, we starve , his baba has warned. They flee to the big city of Mumbai in hopes of finding work and a brighter future. Gopal is eager to help support his struggling family, so when a stranger approaches him with the promise of a factory job, he jumps at the offer.
But there is no factory, just a stuffy sweatshop where he and five other boys are forced to work for no money and little food. The boys are forbidden to talk or even to call one another by their real names. Locked away in a rundown building, Gopal despairs of ever seeing his family again.
But late one night, when Gopal decides to share kahanis , or stories, he realizes that storytelling might be the boys’ key to survival. If he can make them feel more like brothers than enemies, their lives will be more bearable in the shop — and they might even find a way to escape.
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History
They Had Names
$21.99 Add to cartUnlock the Hidden History of America!
In this book, you will explore pre-Columbian links between civilizations of the Old World and civilizations of the New. You’ll read about unexpected connections between Mexico and tribes north of the Rio Grande. You’ll also discover that ancient ruins from North American civilizations still exist, that these ruins tell dramatic stories, and that they can still be visited today.
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History
Mummies Made in Egypt
$14.00 Add to cartPopular children’s author Aliki makes ancient Egypt accessible to your young ones! With of full color, age-appropriate illustrations, Aliki describes and illustrates the techniques and the reasons for the use of mummification in ancient Egypt. Youngsters will learn helpful vocabulary about the process as well as why mummification was necessary to the Egyptian culture, and a little about the gods and goddesses of ancient Egypt. 32 pages, softcover. Ages 4 to 8.
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The Industrial Revolution
Original price was: $21.00.$15.00Current price is: $15.00. Add to cartExamine the technological and social changes brought about by the machine age in Europe and the United States. Activities, maps, puzzles, quizzes, and a time line are included.
